About The Artist
As a former photojournalist, Ms. Atkinson has explored the links between art, visual therapy, and the realities of the dream state for many years. Her work, while being a deeply personal exploration of her own dreams, jars the viewer with its beauty of light interplay, form, and design. Ms. Atkinson’s work has a tactile beauty that brings viewers into her private world while simultaneously giving one the permission to touch, feel, and experience each piece, while making it part of his/her own world, language, and life.

The organic nature of Ms. Atkinson’s abstract shapes fuse together to create recognizable images that strike a resonate chord. These images are further enhanced by her use of natural and eco-friendly tools such as water-soluble paint combinations on silk fabric. Ms. Atkinson’s use of silk is a hidden metaphor for the fluidity of our dreams and frailty of beauty. The medium serves as a haunting reminder of how both shimmer before us, but can disappear in the blink of an eye. An eternal aide memoir that everything is not always as it appears to be.

Recently, she has begun taking commission work to interpret the dreams of others through brush and canvas, as well as digital photomontage.  In addition to exploring work through the medium of paint, Ms. Atkinson has photographed energy fields.

She is currently developing her
30/30 Dream Art Journaling Workshops.  »»

The Evolution of 30 Dreams.com

In August 2006, I had a simple dream.  A voice. 
"A photo a day keeps the artist at play."

The action I took on this dream was to take one photograph per day of anything I found interesting, beautiful, or significant. I will continue this daily photography project indefinitely because taking action on a dream was fun and it helped me live and think creatively.

November 2006, I began my first "blog" on the web.  After a computer crash lost my dream journals for the past 3 years, I decided maybe it was time to store them on a server somewhere.  Inspired by Harry Bosma's "A Month In Pictures" he created a dream "wiki" were we began logging our dreams discovered that mutual dreaming was evolving between us.  

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